Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Daily 5: Work on Writing

We worked on Read to Self and Read to Someone for a few days, then integrated the writing portion into our Daily 5. We are using the 6 Traits book to teach IDEAS at the moment. The kids are having a lot of fun brainstorming and getting their creative ideas down on paper without stressing out conventions and sentence structure yet.

During Work on Writing, the students get their writing assignment for the day during our Writing Focus Lesson, which takes place before we split up into groups. For the month of September, these focus lessons will be centered around generating ideas.

After they get their assignment or prompt, the students get their Writing Journals.

Inside their Writing Journals, they will find a reminder asking them if they are definitely finished. I make them check through these before asking me to conference.

The strategies for Work on Writing can be found in the Daily 5 book.

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They get 15 minute to work on this activity. I'm typically conferencing with them while they are in the following activity about what they have written.

The students work daily in their writing journals. The writing journals
come with a cut and glue strip that they put into their journals at the
beginning of the center, then they read their prompt, and work on their
writing during the center.

It is interesting to see which kids choose to sprawl out across the floor and which choose to stay seated nicely at their desks.

Sitting like an M. She has sat like this since Kindergarten!! I had her in my K class when 2 years ago when I taught Kindergarten and I would get after her for sitting like an M. 2 years later and she still sits like this. :-) I don't try to make her stop anymore because the habit is solidified now!!

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